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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Conflict
Theme
Metonymy
Plot
2. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.
Literal Language
3rd Person (Limited)
Situational Irony
Characterization
3. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.
Analogy
Flashback
Tercet
Personification
4. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.
Repetition
Irony
Allegory
Meter
5. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
External Conflict
Conceit
Blank Verse
Dactyl
6. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.
Falling Meter
Couplet
Internal Conflict
Ballad
7. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
Trochee
Situational Irony
Dialogue
8. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.
Imagery
Subplot
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Situational Irony
9. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.
Foreshadowing
Tone
Falling Action
Allegory
10. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Character
Aubade
Epic
Ode
11. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Catharsis
1st Person
Meter
Tone
12. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Internal Conflict
Author's Purpose
Dactyl
Caesura
13. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Denouement
Meter
Connotation
Repetition
14. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.
Analogy
Hyperbole
Metonymy
1st Person
15. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Synecdoche
Caesura
Subject
16. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Epiphany
Foil
Falling Meter
Foot
17. A brief witty poem - often satirical.
Epigram
Stanza
Convention
External Conflict
18. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Dactyl
Complication
Audience
Subplot
19. The person who 'tells' the story.
Narrator
Tercet
Dialogue
Convention
20. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.
Stanza
Literal Language
Metonymy
Elegy
21. A character struggles against some outside force.
Repetition
External Conflict
Rhythm
Fiction
22. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.
Flashback
Motif
Villanelle
Trochee
23. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Tone
Mood
Figurative Language
Hyperbole
24. A short saying with a moral.
Octave
Couplet
Aphorism
Motif
25. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.
Act
Literal Language
Apostrophe
Parallelism
26. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Connotation
Villanelle
Metonymy
Spondee
27. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.
Metonymy
Theme
Folklore
Enjambment
28. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.
Parody
Voice
Simile
Flashback
29. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.
Reversal
Recognition
Free Verse
Plot
30. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.
Verbal Irony
Syntax
Tercet
Couplet
31. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.
Plot
Complication
Conflict
Recognition
32. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
Point of View
Meter
Synecdoche
Simile
33. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.
Trochee
Denouement
Cliche
Antagonist
34. The organizational form of a literary work.
Connotation
Character
Structure
Imagery
35. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Image
Rising Action
Complication
1st Person
36. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
37. The selection of words in a literary work.
Exposition
Diction
Nonfiction
Folklore
38. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.
Anapest
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Foil
Diction
39. What a story or play is about.
Subject
Diction
Characterization
Meter
40. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.
Repetition
Style
Narrative Poem
Falling Action
41. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.
Satire
Pyrrhic
Convention
Enjambment
42. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.
Dramatic Irony
Complication
Onomatopoeia
Suspense
43. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.
Sestet
Assonance
Situational Irony
Foot
44. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.
Internal Conflict
Analogy
Image
Flashback
45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Anapest
Foot
Rhyme
Enjambment
46. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Irony
Epiphany
Simile
Conflict
47. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.
Foil
Epiphany
Aphorism
Catharsis
48. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.
Nonfiction
Figurative Language
Literal Language
Author's Purpose
49. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Conflict
Ballad
Tone
Solioquy
50. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.
Sestina
Caesura
Understatement
Recognition